Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management spans the procurement, movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption. At RLA our Supply Chain Management focus is within the following areas: 

• Inventory Management & Supply Chain Cost Reductions
  • Inventory analysis, reduction and benchmarking
  • Identification of excess and obsolete
  • End-to-end supply chain analysis and process redesign
  • Review and correction of bills of materials and routings
  • Procurement and vendor management
  • Reduced total cost of ownership
• Sales and operations planning
  • Sales, forecasting and production planning review and process improvement
  • Development of standard new product introduction plans and reduced cycle time
  • Reduced production shortages
  • Improved customer service levels
• Product and Customer Profitability Analysis
  • Including costing accuracy analysis and improvement
• Design of supply chain performance metrics
  • Development of performance metrics that improve profitability and cooperation across departments/groups
  • Alignment of performance reviews and incentives to KPI’s